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AlterNet Black Agenda Report Common Dreams (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, November 3, 2026 at 11:15 PM EST Anti-Trans Panic Couldn't Save Republicans in Deep-Red Texas On an election night handing Republicans a beating in critical House and Senate races across the country, the GOP fell short even in once deep-red Texas after a campaign run on a go-to outrage tactic: fearmongering over the rights of transgender people. Democrats escaped the political wilderness in the Longhorn State on Tuesday night, when Democrat James Talarico defeated Republican Ken Paxton -- despite the far-right attorney general's relentless attacks on the trans community and his party's claims that Democrats would enforce so-called "transgenderism" as a kind of ideology. November 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM EST Abdul El-Sayed Wins Senate Seat With Pro-Palestine Campaign Abdul El-Sayed defeated Mike Rogers in the U.S. Senate race in Michigan early Wednesday, outlasting months of Islamophobic vitriol and offering a bright spot to progressives looking to test their message ahead of the 2028 presidential primary. El-Sayed will be the first-ever Muslim U.S. senator. He rose to victory with a campaign animated by his opposition to U.S. support for Israel's genocide in Gaza, making him a key figure for a left critical of entrenched foreign policy interests and a target for a political establishment intent on preserving the U.S. relationship with the Israeli government. November 3, 2026 at 1:52 PM EST Trump Scrambles to Halt Military Aid to Israel to Deprive El-Sayed of a Talking Point The United States will stop providing $4 billion in annual aid to Israel starting next year, President Donald Trump claimed in an Election Day interview. While the U.S. will continue to sell arms to its closest Middle East ally, Trump's announcement -- should it actually hold true -- could represent a seismic shift in American foreign policy. November 3, 2026 at 9:39 AM EST Ashley Hinson's Digital Chief Oversees Firm Paid Millions to Push Israeli Propaganda The person in charge of digital strategy for the Senate campaign of Iowa Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson helps run a company that received nearly $10 million to influence Americans with pro-Israel propaganda. In September 2025, Hinson -- who is battling Democratic state Rep. Josh Turek in a tight race that could decide control of the Senate -- tapped Abe Adams to lead her campaign's digital efforts. November 3, 2026 at 5:52 AM EST If Democrats Win, Thank the Left Democrats are on the verge of reversing their political fortunes. The party is heading into the midterm elections Tuesday under the kind of conditions campaign consultants dream of, after two years wielding hardly more power than a strongly worded letter. Donald Trump has spent the erratic waning years of his presidency leading his party into a political wilderness by waging a deeply unpopular war on Iran and driving the cost of living ever higher. Republicans who enjoy a governing trifecta have tried to distance themselves from the party's decision-making and its leader, a once-animating force who has turned himself into a liability. Poll after poll says the same: Democrats are poised to take control of one or both houses of Congress -- and spend the next two years thwarting Trump's agenda. November 2, 2026 at 2:35 PM EST Abdul El-Sayed's Race Has Been Defined by Islamophobia. Will It Be Determined by It? As Abdul El-Sayed's one-time primary opponent attempts to redirect closing arguments in the Michigan Senate contest to the topics of Israel and antisemitism, the Democratic nominee has entered the final stretch of the midterms against a barrage of bigoted attacks over his own race and religion. President Donald Trump called him a "jihadist." Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went on a racist rant against Arabs. According to Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a mailer went out showing El-Sayed's face next to the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. November 2, 2026 at 1:57 PM EST "Offensive Driving": ICE's Deadly Weaponization of Vehicles Against Civilians As Miguel Parra Hernandez, a Mexican national, was fleeing from U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement on foot last month, he turned into a parking lot. An unmarked government vehicle came screaming into the lot after him and struck him. When a grand jury in Harris County, Texas, charged the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officer behind the wheel last week, the indictment pointed to a broader pattern in the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants and activists. The charge was assault with a deadly weapon; the weapon was the vehicle. November 2, 2026 at 12:05 PM EST Fergie Chambers Faces Extradition to U.S. Despite Never Being Indicted, Says Lawyer The Trump administration's extradition case against millionaire left-wing donor James "Fergie" Chambers, detained in Spain since July, ran into an apparent hurdle when two witnesses called before a federal grand jury announced their intention last week to refuse to testify. Several observers familiar with the case said the grand jury is likely related to the extradition effort. November 2, 2026 at 8:57 AM EST Radical Centrists Like Haley Stevens Are the Real Extremists in the Democratic Party Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., speaks following her endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers Michigan's Senate race on Nov. 1, 2026, in Detroit. Photo: Emily Elconin/Bloomberg via Getty Images Michigan Democratic Senate primary loser Rep. Haley Stevens on Sunday released a video that will place her in an ignominious legacy of establishment Democrats who act against the collective good. November 2, 2026 at 5:51 AM EST Warnings About ICE at the Polls Risk Their Own Kind of Voter Suppression Anxiety over ICE at the polls is a double-edged sword for the Trump administration: There's the fear that federal immigration agents will illegally descend on voters, and there's the threat that by boosting awareness of that fear, activists and journalists will help the federal government carry out the work of voter intimidation. "Even just rumors of [ICE at the polls] are going to spread fear. That's not what we want," said Daniela Padilla, deputy director at Texas for All, a statewide coalition of organizations working on democracy and justice issues. "Even your reporting around, 'We're watching for ICE at the polls' -- it could scare voters." November 1, 2026 at 6:00 AM EST The CIA Is Resorting to an Open Casting Call for Would-Be Cuban Assets Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at the start of the G20 foreign ministers' meeting on Oct. 30, 2026, in Atlanta.Photo: Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images Imperial ambitions are ever-shifting under President Donald Trump. Greenland, Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba are oftentimes spoken about as one continuous train of complete victories and soon-to-be-complete-victories. With the midterms fast approaching, and the date for an apparent telegraphed return to the Iran war on its heels, talk of easily overthrowing regimes has returned, if it ever truly left. October 31, 2026 at 2:49 PM EDT Centrist Democrats Would Rather Lose the Senate Than Win With El-Sayed Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., speaks during a primary night watch party at the Hotel Saint Regis Detroit on Aug. 4, 2026.Photo: Finn Gomez/Getty Images Halloween weekend is the last chance for centrist Democrats to stop the nightmare they fear most: Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed, who could be the first Muslim in the Senate. The Michigan Democrat's campaign came under pressure from party moderates days out from the general election to denounce an ad produced by The Young Turks presenter Cenk Uygur and his Rebellion PAC. El-Sayed and his campaign were not involved in the production or distribution of the ad, which tied rising domestic prices to U.S. financial backing of the Israel military. But on Thursday, the campaign made the conciliatory gesture of distancing itself. |
